Help came from a sister ship. The _Téméraire_ (98)--the fighting _Téméraire_ of Turner’s glorious picture--was now astern of the _Redoutable_. Had she possessed the machine guns of to-day she could hardly have swept the decks of the enemy with more deadly effect. The men who were attempting to board went down like ninepins. The carnage was awful; the sight sickening. When the smoke cleared, little heaps of corpses were seen piled up on the decks, while the bodies of other poor fellows floated on the sea, now tinged with the blood of victor and vanquished. Five hundred and twenty-two of the _Redoutable’s_ crew fell that day before she struck her colours. [Illustration: The Battle of Trafalgar (the “Victory” in centre of foreground) W. L. Wyllie, A.R.A. =By permission of the Art Union of London, 112 Strand, Publishers of the Etching=] The _Bucentaure_ and the _Santissima Trinidad_ were together throughout the battle and received a succession of attacks from various ships until they surrendered. Both of them were then little more than dismasted hulks. Villeneuve fought with the strength of despair, but the case was hopeless, and resistance only prolonged the agony. No assistance came to him despite his frantic efforts to attract attention. “My part in the _Bucentaure_ is finished!” he cried at last, and so the gallant but weak-willed officer was taken. In appearance Villeneuve was “a tallish, thin man, a very tranquil, placid, English-looking Frenchman; he wore a long-tailed uniform coat, high and flat collar, corduroy pantaloons of a greenish colour, with stripes two inches wide, half-boots with sharp toes, and a watch-chain with long gold links.”[72] Other ships surrendered as the day wore on, the _Algéçiras_ (74) to the _Tonnant_ (80), the _Swiftsure_ (74) and the _Bahama_ (74) to the _Colossus_ (74), the _San Juan Nepomuceno_ (74) to the _Dreadnought_ (98). Eighteen ships of the Allied Fleet were captured; one, the _Achille_ (74), blew up with a terrific explosion. The _Victory_ had been roughly handled by her adversaries. In Hardy’s report of the 5th December 1805, he says: “The hull is much damaged by shot in a number of different places, particularly in the wales, strings, and spurketing, and some between wind and water. Several beams, knees, and riders, shot through and broke; the starboard cathead shot away; the rails and timbers of the head and stem cut by shot, and the falling of the mizen-mast; the principal part of the bulkheads, halfports, and portsashes thrown overboard in clearing ship for action.